Ilya Khlybov

Born in Sukhoi Log, Ilya Khlybov moved to Verkhnyaya Pyshma after finishing the 9th grade, where fate has prepared him to grow into one of the brightest sambists of the last decades. Unbelievable natural aptitude of Khlybov allowed him to shine at all stages of his glorious sports career. Ilya had no equals neither in youth, nor in juniors. Then he reached the second step of Russian pedestal at the first attempt and scintillatingly won his debut European Championship. No wonder that at the age of 22, Khlybov was already a two-time world champion and all his victories came so easily, as if he was playing cat and mouse with his opponents. A serious injury knocked the Verkhnyaya Pyshma athlete out of action for two years. 

However, in 2012, Ilya triumphally returned, first to the highest step of the Russian pedestal, and then he became the first three-time world champion in the history of Sverdlovsk sambo. In 2013, Khlybov strengthened his "royal" status by successively winning the Russian Championship and the World Championship in Saint Petersburg, and during the intermission he, as the captain of the Russian Sambo team, won the World University Games in Kazan, where sambo was included in the Universiade programme for the first time. Having finished his career of an active athlete in the rank of a five-time World champion, two-time European champion and six-time Russian champion, now he is willingly trying himself as a coach. And he looks no less promising. From now on, Ilya is a deputy head coach of UMMC Sambo Club.

Landmark achievements

• World Champion (2007, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2016) 
• European Champion (2006, 2015) 
• Winner of the World University Games (2013) 
• Champion of Russia (2007, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 ) 
• Winner of the International Junior Games of the CIS and Baltic states (2005) 
• Winner of the European Junior Championship (2004 ) 
• Winner of the World Youth Games (2002) 
• Winner of the Youth World Championship (2002)